Investigation of Relationship Between Levels of Self-Efficacy and Self-Care in Middle School Adolescents in Turkey

In this research it is aimed to investigate the relationship between the self-efficacy and self-care levels in adolescents which are agedbetween ۱۱ - ۱۵ years old. For this purpose, the socio-demographic characteristics of the students are utilized including, age, grade,gender, longest residence, family type, current residence location, family structure, academic success status, income-outcome balance,chronic diseases, education level of mother, education level of father, motherprofession, father profession of students. Accordingly,the most known scales namely general self-efficacy scale and self-care agency scale were considered to investigate related characteristicsof adolescents from Mersin Province of Turkey. It is implied from results that there is a significant relationship betweenthe self-efficacy scale scores with the academic success status, family type and family structure characteristics of these adolescents.As well, there existed a significant relationship between the mean scores of the self-care scale with the age, grade, education level oftheir mothers, economic status of their families, academic success status and their family types. Based on the results, especially inthe case of the single-parent type family structures, conducting a democratic family discipline and academic success status of studentslead to increase in the self-efficacy belief of adolescents. In the similar way, the education level of mothers, economic status ofthe families, achieved high academic success and holding a democratic family discipline resulted in the high self-care agency levelof the adolescents. Additionally, as the self-efficacy level of the adolescents increased, the self-care agency level of the adolescentsmay be increased additionally.

Keywords:

Self-Efficacy Scale , Self-Care Agency Scale , Statistical Analysis , Adolescents